Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud, with 30 per cent chance of showers late this morning and risk of a thunderstorm this afternoon. High 23 C, Humidex 25. UV index 7 or high.
Environment Canada is predicting a warmer-than-usual summer across the entire country, with the greatest chance of high temperatures everywhere east of Manitoba.
“There is a high probability of above-normal temperatures for the summer season,” said meteorologist Jennifer Smith. “Above-normal temperatures are expected for the Prairies, but the probability isn’t as high as out East.” The Canadian Press reports.
What’s happening today
Free Press Faith reporter John Longhurst launches Can Robots Love God and Be Saved? A Journalist Reports on Faith (CMU Press) at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location and online, starting at 7 p.m. Guests include Christine Baronins (director of public affairs, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Manitoba and member of the Manitoba Multifaith Council executive) and Paul Samyn (editor, Winnipeg Free Press). Hosted by Rev. Dr. Michael Wilson of Charleswood United Church.
Today’s must-read
Manitoba has not formally inspected Winnipeg’s main fuel-supply pipeline in the last four years, instead allowing industry to take the lead on oversight — a practice critics say lacks transparency and carries environmental risks.
The absence of formal provincial inspections was confirmed in a letter recently obtained by the Free Press and the Narwhal through a freedom of information request.
Additionally, while inspectors have occasionally visited the pipeline “during the course of carrying out other duties,” no inspection reports were written following those visits, the Department of Economic Development, Investment, Trade and Natural Resources said in the letter. Julia-Simone Rutgers has the story.
he Winnipeg Products Pipeline was shut down in March after Alberta-based owner Imperial Oil discovered safety concerns in a section of pipe. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On the bright side
A lone soccer ball appears to have bobbed in the ocean about 3,000 kilometres south, starting near the tip of Baffin Island and landing in the hands of a lobster fisherman on the coast of Newfoundland.
Lee Croucher says he was unloading after a day of fishing on May 30 when he saw the soccer ball nestled between the rocks on the shore of Beaumont, N.L., which is on a small island off Newfoundland’s northern coast. The Canadian Press reports.
Lee Crouche found a soccer ball on a beach in Newfoundland that appears to be from a school in Pond Inlet, Nvt. (Jane Croucher photo)
On this date
On June 12, 1946: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Bournemouth, the British foreign secretary declared he would reject the immediate immigration of 100,000 Jews to Palestine, and would sign separate peace treaties with defeated European powers if pending peace negotiations bogged down among the four principal powers. In different areas of Saskatchewan, six children drowned while swimming or wading in dugouts at their farm homes. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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